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Crossword-Solution: SWING 5 letters, 156 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Swing v. i. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to
wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
Swing v. i. To sway or move from one side or direction to another;
as, the door swung open.
Swing v. i. To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or
pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
Swing n. To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as,
a ship swings with the tide.
Swing n. To be hanged.
Swing v. t. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward
and forward, or from one side to the other.
Swing v. t. To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish;
as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage;
as, to swing a business.
Swing v. t. To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping
it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches
diameter.
Swing n. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory
motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a
pendulum.
Swing n. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as,
some men walk with a swing.
Swing n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose,
upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation
by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are
attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in
the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion
is produced for amusement or exercise.
Swing n. Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
Swing n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter
of the largest object that can be turned in it.
Swing n. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.

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We have 156 clues for the answer “SWING”

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"A ___ and a miss!" 1 answer
"Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" genre 1 answer
"___ low, sweet . . . " 1 answer
1920s music genre 1 answer
A style of dance music. 1 answer
Action for a golfer. 1 answer
Action with a golf club. 1 answer
Afford, casually 1 answer
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Artie Shaw's forte. 1 answer
Benny Goodman's forte 1 answer
Benny Goodman's kingdom 1 answer
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Benny Goodman's specialty 1 answer
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Big Band style 1 answer
Big band sound 1 answer
Brian Setzer genre 1 answer
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Cut at the plate 1 answer
Dance style for Norma Miller 1 answer
Dean of radio news analysts. 1 answer
Duke's era 1 answer
Enjoy a playground fixture 1 answer
Folgers concern 1 answer
Genre for Benny and Artie 1 answer
Go for a pitch 1 answer
Golf coach's concern 1 answer
Golfer's club movement 1 answer
Golfer's motion 1 answer
Goodman genre 1 answer
Goodman specialty 1 answer
Goodman style 1 answer
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Goodman's kingdom 1 answer
Goodman's music 1 answer
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Goodman's realm 1 answer
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Children's playground seat that moves back and forth 1 answer
Item from "A Child's Garden of Verses." 1 answer
Jazz style of the '30s and '40s 1 answer
Jitterbug dance style 1 answer
Kingdom once ruled by Benny Goodman 1 answer
Louis Armstrong's music 1 answer
Move on a hinge 1 answer
Moving playground seat 1 answer
Noted news commentator. 1 answer
Playground fixture where pushing is encouraged 1 answer
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Sentences with SWING (5)

She was sporting with her women, Swinging in a swing of grape-vines, When her rival the rejected, Full of jealousy and hatred, Cut the leafy swing asunder, Cut in twain the twisted grape-vines, And Nokomis fell affrighted Downward through the evening twilight, On the Muskoday, the meadow, On the prairie full of blossoms.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
When he was satisfied with the edge of his blade, he slipped the whetstone into his hip pocket and began to swing his scythe, still whistling, but softly, out of respect to the quiet folk about him.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
But to think she can manage alone!” He allowed his head to swing laterally three or four times in silence.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Utterson, and tell me, is that the doctor’s foot?” The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
This was a song about a Greaser dance, the refrain being something like this:— “Pedró, Pedró, swing high, swing low, And it’s allamand left again; For there’s boys that’s bold and there’s some that’s cold, But the góld boys come from Spain, Oh, the góld boys come from Spain!” VIII Winter was long in coming that year.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with SWING (3)

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.
Nina LaCour Hold Still
I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray
With slouch and swing around the ring We trod the Fools’ Parade! We did not care: we knew we were The Devils’ Own Brigade: And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade.
Oscar Wilde
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 88 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).